Welcome to our new album! I changed my stables name from Marseille's Imperial Equestrian Center to Carousel Horses Park. Some of you might remember that we recently moved from France to California, USA. I've had this stables for 2 years and I couldn't stop seeing all the faults and mistakes I had made back then and decided for a fresh start. I have almost completely different stock from 2015 and I am really happy with my decision to get a fresh, new name. (Even though it's going to be a pain to change all my prefixes). If you have a horse of mine that either you own or is a sire of your horse, you can choose to keep my old prefix or change it to the new one, CHP. I love this new start and hope you will too!

"Mom? What are you doing here?" Lara called and pushed through the crowd to get to the wondering woman. She grabbed the arm of the tall model pulling her to face Lara.

"Lara!" She laughed and hugged her daughter tight. "It's been way too long since I've seen you. The facilities look great too!" She stepped back to admire Lara, who smiled tensely. "And guess what? I brought Taffy along to celebrate the opening too!"

Lara's smile slipped away and turned into a frown. "You brought her?" She stepped back and looked around.

"She's outside. Come let's take a picture." Bright smile still flashing, the tall woman dragged her daughter outside of the barn party. Standing by the pond was Taffy, laughing with other party goers and showing off her looks. Lara boiled at the sight of her, she hadn't left France in good terms with her half sister. The other people meandered away as the mother and daughter joined the group.

"I love it here! It's definitely not as cold as France, and more bright at this time of year. It has such a rural feel, as if we are all alone." Taffy chattered as she looked around. "And the horses are beautiful. They must be soooo expensive. Do you get to ride them? Probably not, but I want to ride one. I'm still riding with the Munichs in France and then with a different stable when I'm with daddy." Lara thought jumping off a cliff was the best option at this point.

"Come girls, I want to take your picture and post it so everyone can see how beautiful you two are!" Their mother beckoned and backed up, pulling out her phone.

"Oh Lara, you still have those horrible tattoos?" Lara rolled her eyes and stood next to Taffy. "Can you at least try to look happy?" Taffy grabbed Lara and leaned forward and laughed adding in her model smile. "Pose another way, please."

Lara remembered the reason she had willingly left France to go to America with Bree. "Enough, I'm done." She scowled and pushed Taffy away. "I'm going back to the party to enjoy my time, and hopefully never seeing you again."

"But wait, Lara. Didn't Bree tell you?" Taffy frowned and pivoted to her half sister who turned around. "I'm staying with you and learning how to ride in America."

"What?" Lara put a hand to her temple and groaned. "Never mind," she gave up and headed back inside the barn in search of alcohol to soothe her anger.

"She's staying here!" Lara yelled into the phone. She paced in the kitchen, not wanting to believe it. "In my house and riding my horses!"

A small crackle came out of the phone before Lara's older sister Brooke began speaking. She listened to her sister's response before yelling again. "It's not going to get better. I hate her!" She sighed and leaned on the marble counter. "She's 18! She's supposed to be going to her international college and continuing her modeling and flirting with boys for money." More crackling. "I still can't believe Mother left our father for that scum." Silence again. "No it's not between me and Mother! No...but that's not the point...whatever..... I have to go to bed, my head is killing me.....No I didn't drink too much...Bye." Lara hung up the phone and staggered to bed.

"You're making me ride a PONY?" Taffy's shrill rang out across the arena. "At Florida I rode Thoroughbreds, and I know you have plenty of those."

"Just get on the damn horse."

Taffy huffed and swung into the saddle. "There's nothing wrong with Dizzy, he's small, just like you."

"Mother would kill you if she saw you riding with out a helmet." Lara commented as she watched Taffy jump Dizzy over a small oxer.

"She left for her flight to Brazil hours ago. And you ride with out one all the time."

"True."

"Look it's snowing!"

"It's not like you haven't seen snow before...."Thank's for reading! Sorry for the long story, but I needed a way to introduce Taffy and Lara's introduction.

Over at Instagram, I was lucky enough to win a raffle and got this handsome dude, RSS Versolung! Pat is riding him in Dressage so far and he is very comfortable to ride.

After being ridden, he got to meet Pat's young stallion and new pasture mate, CHP Can't Touch This. After a few minutes of supervised squealing and running around like maniacs, they settled down and started to groom each other.

And of course, my favorite little colt, CHP They Call Me Thumper. He's a pretty spunky yearling and does not want to do anything other than run around and avoid being caught. I edited the back ground but never got to his coat or mane and tail!

Yeah, this time of the semester is really busy. I have two 15 pg papers due next week and a bunch of stuff happening before that XD I just realized that today is the first day I've been on here in the past month. In two weeks I'll be free for a while, I just have to make it there I wish you luck finishing up your semester

Winter is upon us and snow as well. It does not get very deep here where we are in Northern California, but enough to give the horses a fright. One of our Friesian mare had never seen snow before, so it was quite the experience!

I have this Quarter Horse mare that I cannot seem to get rid off and stop editing She's just so lovely but I don't have much room for her. Maybe I'll keep her....

"Ahohoho- look who it is." Lara commented as she walked up to the arena. Soft morning light shone over the grounds, basking everything in a pink glow. A few sprinkles of snow drifted overhead, falling slowly to the cold ground. Heavy puffs and hooves pounding the ground broke the silence of the glissful morning. "I haven't seen you two in a while." She leaned up against the fence boards and watched the rider and horse.

"Yeah- Fore got a little bored of being down in the South stable and decided he had to come with me to the monthly visit up here." Whitney stopped the large stallion to stand next to Lara, face shining with the effort of jumping her horse.

"Well, I can definitely say that he doesn't like the cold up here. We just arrived yesterday and now is such an nice time to ride, out of your way."

"Don't let me stop you!" Fore trotted away, back to his lesson in the chilly air.

I haven't seen him in quite a while, thought Lara as she turned back to the stable full of horses waiting to be fed and turned out. If only he'd stay up here, who knows what kind of jumper he'll be.

He showed some talent at his first-and only show- that I doubted. He certainty pulled through. She sighed dreamily as she turned into the door of the barn. I just hope we have some youngsters with that talent this year.

Lara rolled her eyes as she looked over at the arena the next day. What can't this horse do? And where did he come from? Something definitely happened down at the breeding shed.

"Ocean sure has some catching up to do." Was Augustine's comment when he first saw Fore. That was before he saw him prancing around the next day, showing off his flowy Thoroughbred strides.

Ocean did well at jumping and hunters, really well in fact, but even Charlotte Dujardin couldn't make a dressage horse out of his mare.

But atleast their father was a decent dressage horse, which he should be after years of being ridden. Their Thoroughbred breeding program was going well, small but with good quality. If only the sporthorse market was looking for Thoroughbreds now, unlike years ago, when their stallions had a chance to prove themselves. For now, Augustine had them all to himself, and he had no problem with that.

Our breeding program for our Dutch Warmbloods has been going well. Our main stallion, CHP Into the Woods We Go, or Tempis, has proven himself many times over with his offspring. But he is ready to start competing again now that our show season is starting up again.

His son, CHP They Call Me Thumper, AKA Thumper, has been growing up rapidly and changes everyday. In good ways and bad. He's picked up the 'colt' attitude, always bolting and sticking things in his mouth. He is a coming 3 year old and is starting to learn what a saddle is, to the amusement of our trainers.

We have an upcoming mare that is starting dressage and we are hoping will be successful. She will soon be available for sale to a competitive home.

Thumper has been getting lonely and we decided to get him a young friend, Serenity's Ransom Paycheck. He is a quiet , mellow gelding, which will helpfully cool out Thumper.

For a 'challenge' on Instagram, I created a horse off of a specific Google search photo. I put a little of my own twist on it but he came out beautifully. CHP Mount Zion, who may be for sale in the future.

Before our stallion, CHP Into the Woods We Go, was a dressage horse, he was started under fences for his temperment overload. After a while of being ridden and mellowing out, he was switched to dressage permanently. His show season has not yet started, so Lara decided to get him into work with some fun by visiting his past skills.

Tempis was very willing and Lara had some fun with him. She will continue jumping him for the time being until he dressage season starts again.

Lara jumping CHP Mount Zion for his sale pictures for the Instagram community. I am sad to sell him, but I just don't have the room for more horses to play with.

The snow has melted so we are letting the horses out for their turn in the soggy paddocks. We assumed the Friesians were going to be mellow so we let out a few at a time, but we were sorely mistaken. They galloped, slid, and squealed before we decided to seperate them for their own safety.